Re: CALS and public resources
From: Al Christoph (ac2_at_too.net)
Date: 09/27/04
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:43:51 -0400
Thanks for the response and your patience. There was a posting previous in
this chain that seemed to imply otherwise, and I wanted to make sure that my
understanding which is the same as yours is correct. And that appears to be
the case.
Regards,
Al
"Les Connor" <les.connor@DEL.cfive.ca> wrote in message
news:ublxiKCpEHA.3668@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Same difference, nothing. Like I said, CALs (either kind) are not realted
> to the creation of user accounts.
>
> The onus is on the owner (a person) to be in compliance. So if *you*
> decide that the 5 included CALs are User CASs, then you can have 5 users
> (persons) log in to the SBS from 100 workstations. The opposite of Device
> CALs.
>
> Do a google search of this newsgroup for CALs, there's been lots of
> discussion.
>
> --
> Les Connor [SBS Community Member]
> -------------------------------------
> SBS Rocks !
>
>
>
> "Al Christoph" <ac2@too.net> wrote in message
> news:udpGzeApEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Thanks for the response Les. That is understood. The question is what
>> does the system do if you install USER CALS??????
>>
>> Regards,
>> Al
>>
>> "Les Connor" <les.connor@DEL.cfive.ca> wrote in message
>> news:u0zjpd3oEHA.3724@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi Al,
>>>
>>> You can create as many user accounts as you like - the creation of
>>> accounts is not tied to CALs in any way. 100 users could share 5
>>> workstations with 5 device CALs.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Les Connor [SBS Community Member]
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> SBS Rocks !
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Al Christoph" <ac2@too.net> wrote in message
>>> news:uoCMAUzoEHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>> Once you get your system up and running take a look at the user list.
>>>> You may - depending what you have decided to use - find all sorts of
>>>> users that MS has created for OS convenience. For example, I've got
>>>> users for each one of the subwebs, created not by me directly but
>>>> rather by the subweb creation process.
>>>>
>>>> Bill has been accused of greed, but they could hardly charge you $99
>>>> for each one of these users that the software sets up for its
>>>> convenience.
>>>>
>>>> Question: An earlier posting seems to imply that the helium filled red
>>>> ballon tied to a brick won't work. In some licensing schemes if you
>>>> have the brick sitting on your desk you can use the license/software.
>>>> Thus, if you have ten PC's, one server, and 5 USER CAL's and 15 users,
>>>> the ballon trick implies that any 5 of them could connect on any or all
>>>> of the PC's while the other ten took an extended smoke break.
>>>>
>>>> OTH the way I read that comment in a very early post, the moment you
>>>> attempted to CREATE the sixth user you would be rebuffed.
>>>>
>>>> So do user CALS reflect who is using the system at the moment - the red
>>>> balloon style - OR folks that you can create user id's for????? How
>>>> many full users can you create if you have 5 CALS?
>>>>
>>>> BTW Please forgive me if this was answered earlier in the string of
>>>> posts. I'll have to admit that I didn't slog through them all.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Al
>>>> -
>>>> "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in
>>>> message news:OZlAyqmoEHA.648@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>>> No, the resource account does not require a license. Since there is
>>>>> no authentication being done by the resource account, it doesn't count
>>>>> as a user or device that requires a CAL. For User CALs, users are
>>>>> actual people, not accounts. Letting 5 people log in with one account
>>>>> still uses 5 User CALs, for example. For Device CALs, they're devices
>>>>> that authenticate (such as computers, PDAs), not devices that don't
>>>>> (such as printers).
>>>>>
>>>>> You can have as many accounts in AD as you wish, unrelated to your CAL
>>>>> count. For example, User A authenticates to the SBS, therefore using
>>>>> a CAL. User A quits and is replaced by User B. User B uses the CAL
>>>>> that User A freed up by leaving the company. You can leave User A in
>>>>> the AD for as long as you wish without consuming a CAL. (I do this so
>>>>> that a supervisor can log into User A's profile and check for
>>>>> important data without giving the supervisor admin rights, then delete
>>>>> User A when we're sure nothing got missed).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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